The vocabulary of the term legislative includes about 1,000 subjects, geographical units and names of organizations. The CRS may assign one or more terms to describe the content and effects of a measure. The vocabulary of the term legislative has been used uniformly for all bills and resolutions introduced since 2009 (111th Congress). There are three distinct technical term vocabularies that are used to make it easier to find invoices by topic. See Term of the political domain, Terms of legislative subjects and LIV – Vocabulary of legislative indexation. An amendment is tabled when a senator submits his or her amendment to the clerk of the court at the table for possible future consideration by the Senate. An amendment is not pending until it has been formally proposed or offered by a senator. The term “submissive” is sometimes used instead of “submissive”. Political vocabulary has been systematically used for all bills and resolutions introduced since 1979 (96th Congress). The term commemoration was used from 1997 to 2008 (105th to 110th Congress) to categorize measures introduced to honor or commemorate.
The term appears in the “Purpose – policy area” section of these actions. Example: H.Con.Res.205 [110e]. Brief explanations of the legal terms used throughout the Congress.gov. Detailed descriptions can be found in “About” committees, committee reports, Senate notices, congressional records, legislation, membership, appointments and contract documents. A Senate amendment is proposed or offered when a senator is approved by the Speaker, sends his or her amendment to the table (or identifies a request for change that is already on the table) and the request for change is read by the secretary. The amendment is pending before the Senate and remains pending until it is completed by the Senate. Sometimes the term “called” is used instead of “proposed” or “offered”. The term “private law” is attributed to measures proposed for the granting of limited benefits to one or more specific persons. As a general rule, measures with a legislative subject under “private law” do not receive a mandate from a policy area.
An adjournment that ends an annual session of Congress. An adjournment “sine die” (“without day”) does not fix a day for a new composition, so that the Congress does not reconvene until the first day of the next session. According to the Constitution, adjournment sine die (except when the next session is about to be convened) requires the consent of both Houses, which is achieved through the simultaneous adoption of a resolution which, in current practice, also authorizes the leaders of both Houses to resume their sessions if circumstances warrant. Unlike public bills (which apply to public affairs and treat individuals only by class), a private bill proposes to provide limited benefits to one or more specific persons (including businesses or institutions), usually when no other recourse is available. A House committee tasked with, among other things, reporting on “special rules” — simple resolutions that propose tailored conditions for the House to debate and amend a measure in the House of Representatives. A measure (provided for in the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, as amended) that establishes a congressional budget, including overall budget levels, that may be applied in subsequent review of expenditure and revenue legislation. It is a concurrent resolution (e.g., H.Con.Res resolution or S.Con. Res), not a legislative vehicle; As such, it is not subject to the President. Resolution tabled by the Committee on the Rules of Procedure, the Verification of Credentials and Immunities which, with Parliament`s consent, lays down the conditions for the debate and amendment of one or more specific measures.
The Legislative Indexing Vocabulary (LIV) was the thesaurus of the Congressional Research Service (CRS) from 1973 to 2008. This controlled vocabulary provided access to legislative documents, public policy materials, and CRS products on specific topics. With the increasing availability of electronic full-text documents and the accompanying search functions, the level of detail used by LIV has become redundant and the modernization and rationalization of the vocabulary assigned by CRS analysts for classification and group legislation has begun.